Painter Quotes

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.